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How reading and writing literacy narratives affect preservice teachers’ understandings of literacy, pedagogy and multiculturalism

Abstract

None.

Reference

  • Clark, C., & Medina, C. (2000). How reading and writing literacy narratives affect preservice teachers' understandings of literacy, pedagogy and multiculturalism. Journal of Teacher Education, 51(1), 63-76. 

Journal

Journal of Teacher Education

Analysis

Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?

no

Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?

no

Research Approach

  • Narrative Inquiry

Geographic Setting

  • Ohio

Institutional Context

  • University based

Certification Level

  • Secondary

Programatic Focus

  • Secondary

Research Location Context

  • Literacy, Language, and Culture Course

Preservice Participants

  • M.Ed. program

Preservice Sample Size

8

Duration of Data Collection

  • Autumn Quarter

Data Sources

  • Focus group discussions
  • Interviews
  • Observations
  • online discussions
  • reflections
  • Writing Artifacts

Data Analysis Tools

  • grounded theory
  • Open coding
  • Triangulation

Researcher Positionality

  • inside (staying their own students)
  • Inside (studying their own practices)

Research Questions

"How Latinos/as, as an ethnic group invisible in this College of Education, were represented and studied through an introductory course on issues of language, literacy, and culture?"
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Yes
How might students' understandings of literacy and multiculturalism be mediated through the acts of reading and writing literacy narratives?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No

Categories

2PTI Category: Preservice teacher identity, knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and/or orientation (ikbao) toward literacy or the teaching of literacy.

2PTL Category: Preservice teachers own literacy (experiences and practices).

3CCT Category: Course content -- Content of instruction (including TE's teaching with technology) and the experiences in the course that relate to this content.

3CCE Category: Course experiences – the work that is done in a course to promote the content.

2PTP Category: Preservice teachers teaching practices (including shifts in teaching practices as a function of growth or context).

7WTG Topic: Writing

7SIU Topic: Sociocultural Influences and Understandings

7CRL Topic: Critical literacy

7PTB Topic: Preservice teacher beliefs about students, families communities etc

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